Many people regard revealing pictures of the female form used to sell products as disgusting. Others, mainly men, see them as acceptable or even beautiful, a study by the anti-discrimination watchdog has found.

It's a women's magazine with a difference. There are no pages devoted to fashion, beauty, horoscopes or celebrity gossip. Instead, they deal mainly with topics such as discrimination against ethnic minorities. Nuliu is an unusual publication in Hong Kong: not only is it a feminist journal, it's still going after more than 20 years.

The news that Indian women are taking a more active role in village politics is indeed good news. I refer to the story headlined 'Female villagers shift the power' (South China Morning Post, May 4), which describes the efforts of low-caste and minority women to change the unjust and oppressive structures in Indian society.

Recent letters to these columns have both criticised and defended the feminist movement and the notion of women's liberation. Those women who have achieved high positions in business are attacked for neglecting their families while those who serve at home are maligned for burying their talents and being subservient to crass, unfeeling men.

Referring to Raymond Hung Man-ho's lengthy letter headlined, 'Women must stay at home' (South China Morning Post, September 4), I would suggest that a family environment in which both the husband and wife contribute equally to household chores and child-minding is a more healthy one in which to bring up children.

The Challenge of Local Feminisms Edited by Amrita Basu Westview Press $195 WHILE the controversial Beijing-hosted United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women has passed into recent history, it is not only the arguments about what it achieved that will be its continuing legacy.

I REFER to Stuart Wolfendale's column (Sunday Morning Post, March 12). As a matter of fact, International Women's Day has nothing to do with the United Nations. It grew from a demonstration by women workers in 1908. A socialist women's conference adopted it in 1910 and women have themselves spread the concept internationally since then.